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... 2011 autonomy Barzani Talabani RUK 2003 support Ceyhan aghas Maliki Ankara jihadist jihad mosul peshmerga pesh merga federal federalizing confederal 362 Prolonged instability and violence or state collapse in Syria and Iraq, as well as major changes in Turkish attitudes, may...

... , 2011 . © 2011 Current History. All rights reserved. 2011 The Regents of the University of California Robin Wright Rock the Casbah jihad Al Qaeda Arab Spring 372 BOOKS As the Arab Spring drifts toward winter, a small number of books has appeared that attempt to explain...

... of California Al Qaeda Jemaah Islamiyah United States Afghanistan Indonesia Hambali MILF Laskar Jihad Philippines Malaysia Al Qaeda has suffered severe setbacks sincethe US-led war on terror began in 2001.Two-thirds of its known senior leadership have been arrested. The terrorist group...

... and violence. © 2003 Current History. All rights reserved. 2003 The Regents of the University of California Islam United States ijtihad jihad Sayyid Qutb John Locke Al Qaeda Paul Berman Egypt Muslim 417 It is in the battle for Islam s soul that the United States and liberal Islam...

...Roxanne L. Euben Jihad is neither simply a blind and bloody-minded scrabble for temporal power nor solely a door through which to pass into the hereafter. Rather it is a form of political action in which … the pursuit of immortality is inextricably linked to a profoundly this-worldly endeavor...

... Current History. All rights reserved. 2001 The Regents of the University of California Afghanistan al Qaeda jihad Madrassah Osama bin Laden Pakistan September Terrorism United States War Awar on terrorism must be fought on manyfronts, using every tool at the Americangovernment s...

... Current History. All rights reserved. 2020 The Regents of the University of California cease-fire guerrilla India insurgency jihad Kashmir Line Control Muslim Pakistan partition 170 The Kashmir problem is at once both simple and complex.1 In the nineteenth century thestate of Jammu...